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Author Yaffe, Deborah, 1965-

Title Other people's children : the battle for justice and equality in New Jersey's schools / Deborah Yaffe
Published New Brunswick, NJ : Rivergate Books, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 370 pages)
Contents Jersey city's tax war -- Celebrating the bicentennial -- The true believer -- Son of Robinson -- The families -- "The system is broken" -- The twenty-one/forty-one rule -- The children of Abbott -- A constitutional right to astroturf -- "We do not run school systems" -- The children grow up
Summary In 1981, when Raymond Abbott was a twelve-year-old sixth-grader in Camden, New Jersey, poor city school districts like his spent 25 percent less per student than the state?s wealthy suburbs did. That year, Abbott became the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action lawsuit demanding that the state provide equal funding for rich and poor schools. Over the next twenty-five years, as the non-profit law firm representing the plaintiffs won ruling after ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court, Abbott dropped out of school, fought a cocaine addiction, and spent time in prison before turning his lif
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education -- Finance -- Law and legislation -- New Jersey
Educational law and legislation -- New Jersey
Property tax -- Law and legislation -- New Jersey
Public schools -- New Jersey -- Finance
Educational equalization -- New Jersey -- Costs
Education and state -- New Jersey
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Education and state
Education -- Finance -- Law and legislation
Educational law and legislation
Property tax -- Law and legislation
Public schools -- Finance
New Jersey
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813543932
0813543932